But I did. These guys have been a great help and encouragement through some tough times for me and they probably don't even realize it. - Pagangoddess
atypical1 wrote:OK, so that is funny. But it also goes to tell you just how much messed up people see in the gym if they think GM's are squats. How receptive was he when you explained what you were doing?
james
He was sort of receptive, he stopped acting like a know-it-all at least once he saw that I knew what I was talking about. He said that he had heard of GMs before but "thought they were something you did on the back extension thing."
He said he thought I was squatting because that's the depth he goes to when squatting. I do see a lot of people squatting only to GM-levels of depth in my gym - it seems every person I see squatting either goes full depth or stops REALLY short, no in-between. So that's not surprising. I told him that I squat past parallel but I didn't really get into it any further with him - he basically responded with "well it seems like you know what you're doing dude, sorry about that, squatting deep is too much strain on my knees though" and walked off. I was too tired to chase after him and explain that squatting deep is better for your knees.'grats on the mod status james.
